The Authenticated Report of the Discussion which took place in the Chapel of the Roman Catholic College of Downside Near Bath, on the 25th, 26th, and 27th of February, and the 5th, 6th, and 7th of March, 1834

London, England: Rivington and Booker, 1836-01-01. First Edition. Leather Bound. Good+. First edition, 1836. Good+. 1/2 green leather with red leather label and marbled boards. 483 pages of debate with 78 page supplement and and a 9 page reprinting of a submission to the Bath Journal - in rear. Light dampstain at top edge, which penetrates and stains, without damaging the top 1/4" edge of the front pages, title page, and a few other pages of the text. Subjects of these Protestant Catholic Debates: "The Rule of Faith" and "The Sacrifice of the Mass" (see note below). Signed on the inside of the endpaper "F. C. Husenbeth 1836. The title page of the Supplement is also so signed. This is almost certainly the Catholic priest and writer, Frederick Charles Husenbeth. Husenbeth had no particular liking for religious institutes, and was quite opposed to the new forms of devotion. Between the years 1823 and 1849 forty-nine works written or edited by him appeared in London, Dublin, and Norwich. Many of these were controversial publications, written in refutation of George Stanley Faber and Joseph Blanco White, while others treated of historical, liturgical, or doctrinal matters. To whit this work would have been apropos. ' the controversy herein was known as ‘The Downside Discussion.' It arose, on 10 Jun. 1834, at the Old Down inn, out of a meeting of the Protestant Reformation Society, at which the two principal speakers were the Rev. John Lyons and the Rev. Edward Tottenham. A friend of Brown‘s having formally challenged those gentlemen to a disputation, six meetings were soon afterwards arranged to take place in the college chapel at Downside. These meetings came off in 1834, and in 1836 appeared the ‘Authentic Report' -DNB